Teardown of Omron BP652 Blood Pressure Monitor

Ok,this is a kind of product that I’ve never teared down before.The PCB inside is beautiful and well designed!I tried to understand the circuitry but turned out all the main components are customized parts and I couldn’t find any solid information about them.Well,this will be a headache for those copycat! :P Well done Omron!During the teardown,I’ll add my thought about some designs. Continue reading “Teardown of Omron BP652 Blood Pressure Monitor”

Teardown of Neato XV-11 LIDAR

I bought this LIDAR model from ebay a month ago.I was planning to use that to build a self driving car,well,not a real car,but a small robotic car.Anyway,I’m in the stage of studying some sensor fusion algorithms,and some stuffs about ADAS(Advanced Driver Assisted System) so I might not start to build this project in the next coming weeks.But I’ve been wondering what’s inside the LIDAR model for a long time,so today I finally took the device apart and took a look at the guts.Alright,let start!
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